Hospitality Group Of The Year: Sheppard Mullin

Law360, New York (January 22, 2014, 2:59 PM EST) -- Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP's hospitality practice has had a hand not only in large refinancings and hotel sales of 2013 — including a major lender’s $26 million sale of a San Jose hotel — but also in complex acquisitions and redevelopments that have maintained Chicago’s iconic city skyline, landing a spot on Law360's Hospitality Practice Groups of the Year.

The former Chicago Athletic Association on Chicago’s architecturally distinctive thoroughfare of Michigan Avenue was a landmark ripe for redevelopment when private equity firm Geolo Capital,...